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In the three months since 15 people were killed when a roof collapsed at a newly-renovated train station in Serbia's second-biggest city of Novi Sad, mass demonstrations have grown into the ...
NOVI SAD, Serbia (Reuters) -Serbia wound up a rescue operation and opened an investigation on Saturday into a roof collapse at a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad that killed 14 ...
Vucic and his allies deny these allegations. But Serbia's rating on Transparency International's global corruption index has worsened gradually in recent years. It now sits 105th out of 180 countries.
The history of rail transport in Serbia began in the mid-19th century when most of the territory was still held by the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. The first rail line on the present-day territory of Serbia was inaugurated on 20 August 1854, between Lisava-Oravica-Bazijaš and the train operated on horse-drawn traffic which was replaced in 1856 by steam locomotives.
The train station is located on the western outskirts of the city, on the street Dimitrije Tucovića. Steam locomotive JDŽ 01 in Niš railway station, 1937. The original building of the station served until World War II. In 1943, as a strategic object, the Anglo-American air raid was directed against the Nazi occupation of Serbia. [1]
On 21 November, Vladimir Đukanović, a high-ranking member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), commented on the protests on his Twitter account: "We must fight against anarcho-terrorists, fake commie intellectuals, the pseudo-elite that is ravaging Serbia with anti-Serbian attitudes. It is time to stop this social scum.
Mass protests have rocked Serbia for months as protesters demand justice and accountability after the deaths of 15 people in the collapse of a railway station.. Tens of thousands of college ...
The Šargan Eight is Serbia's only narrow-gauge railroad line in service, albeit as a heritage railway.It operates passenger travel from Mokra Gora to Šargan. Originally, the Šargan Eight connected Serbia with Bosnia and Herzegovina (Belgrade-Sarajevo line) when it was first constructed in 1916; the original link extended all the way to Višegrad.